{"id":249,"date":"2004-12-15T01:45:04","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/249"},"modified":"2004-12-15T01:45:04","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T01:45:04","slug":"wikipedias-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/249","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia’s defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By way of SlashDot<\/a>) The Wikipedia<\/a> entry on Sollog<\/a> is an interesting example of how a community can protect a shared collaborative space. Sollog is a self-proclaimed seer\/prophet<\/a>, who a little over a week ago was the subject of a new anonymously-written Wikipedia entry<\/a> touting his books and otherwise proclaiming his powers. Since then the entry has been edited, vandalized & blanked back and forth 194 times<\/a> (several of the vandalizations from the same IP address that wrote the original article), put to a vote on deletion by community members (who decided to keep<\/a> the article, though in edited form) and finally protected from further edits<\/a> to keep it from being vandalized.<\/a><\/p>\n

The part that impresses me most is the amount of work and calm rational discussion that’s gotten done over at the discussion thread<\/a> on the topic (and even pre-refactored version<\/a>). I wish I had a metric for how much the success of an online community owes to the communication tools at its disposal (protection, easy version-handling, IP-blocking, etc.), a clear mission statement \/ rules of engagement and smart dedicated people, but I’m betting the breakdown is something like 20% \/ 30% \/ 50%…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(By way of SlashDot<\/a>) The Wikipedia<\/a> entry on Sollog<\/a> is an interesting example of how a community can protect a shared collaborative space. Sollog is a self-proclaimed seer\/prophet<\/a>, who a little over a week ago was the subject of a new anonymously-written Wikipedia entry<\/a> touting his books and otherwise proclaiming his powers. Since then the entry has been edited, vandalized & blanked back and forth 194 times<\/a> (several of the vandalizations from the same IP address that wrote the original article), put to a vote on deletion by community members (who decided to keep<\/a> the article, though in edited form) and finally protected from further edits<\/a> to keep it from being vandalized.<\/a><\/p>\n

The part that impresses me most is the amount of work and calm rational discussion that’s gotten done over at the discussion thread<\/a> on the topic (and even pre-refactored version<\/a>). I wish I had a metric for how much the success of an online community owes to the communication tools at its disposal (protection, easy version-handling, IP-blocking, etc.), a clear mission statement \/ rules of engagement and smart dedicated people, but I’m betting the breakdown is something like 20% \/ 30% \/ 50%…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}